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...good NBC show, Tom Riley may be the man whose pencil and quiet word gave the script its magic touch. If the base fiddler didn't arrive for the broadcast, that may have been Tom Riley you heard, taking it. He's one of many well-paid but unsung NBC producers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunes, Scripts Plagued Them in, College--And Still Do | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Questioned as to the truth of the affair, the Yard warriors vaingloriously admitted complete responsibility for the conquest, but Mr. Hoeing, gallant as always, declined to contradict their statements. "I understand it was a stirring struggle" was all this unsung hero could be persuaded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoeing Wards Off Amazed Muskrat With Stick Until Yard Cops Aid Him in Making Slaughter | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

...Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms' Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as "O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung." Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled "The Serenade in Vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dreamer | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...secretary. Louis McHenry Howe. But Mr. Howe, suffering from dyspepsia, gradually faded from the scene. Frank C. Walker, able lawyer, one-time treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and personal friend of Franklin Roosevelt, was likewise hailed as Assistant President. For months he presided over the mute and unsung labors of the old Executive Council and National Emergency Council. Finally he quietly retired and was quickly forgotten. Donald Richberg is the third No. 1 man at the President's elbow. Despite the powers conferred upon him, he was not expected last week to remain "Assistant President" for very long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Assistant President? | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

This glorious establishment that has gone unsung is located at 156 Canal Street, less than two blocks from the Boston Garden, and who is the proprietor but Squire Jack Sharkey, former heavyweight champ of the world and the pride of Chestnut Hill. The bar stretches to the unbelievable length of 145 feet, and in the smoky haze that pervades the place it is impossible to see from one end to the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uncle Sam's Longest Bar, 145 Feet in Length, To Be Exact, Boston's Latest Claim to Renown | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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